But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Heywood Broun

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?

Cassandra Clare

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Woody Allen

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Jennifer Aniston

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.

Visar Zhiti

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame de Stael

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett